g STARS - What is the habitable zone for the nearby star GJ 588?
g ABODES - Giant gas planets that orbit close to their parent star could harbour moons the size of Earth, say researchers, but the possibility of finding life on them would be remote. See article.
g LIFE - NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. See article.
g MESSAGE - Book alert: In "Is Anyone Out There?", by Frank Drake, Dava Sobel, University of California astronomy and astrophysics professor Drake, aided by science journalist Sobel, responds to the title's classic question with an account of his career-long quest to gamer hard scientific data that might point to some answers. One of America's pioneer radio astronomers, Drake provides firsthand descriptions of breakthrough moments in the past 30 years of astrophysics - no encounters of any kind, just straightforward astrophysics with inconclusive experimental results. Drake's medium is science, his theory technical and his slightly anthropocentric conclusions more modest than those of the average UFO abductee.
g AFTERMATH - Among scientists involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, it's quite common to be focused on the future, ever mindful that it could take years, or even decades, to find a signal from otherworldly intelligence. But if historian Steve Dick has his way, astronomers will also turn their attention toward the past as they search for life beyond Earth - to discover the aftereffects of contact between two intelligent cultures. See article. Note: This article is from 2003.
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